The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-20 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. From this time until the end of the season there will be four Onora nights in each week, viz.. every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and satarday. Subi(Aption Nig+ t, in lieu of Saturday, Aup - ,ust 6. Third Al.pearance of Sig or Wachie In 11 cruvatore. 'Third Appearance of Mademoiselle uebtinn. TO-MORROW (Thursday t, April 2 1 , will be performed Verdi's opera, IL TROVATORE. Leonora, Mdlle. Anto nietta Fried ; Inez, Mdlle. Anese ; Azucena, Nfdlle. Des inn ; 11 Conte di Luna, Signor Co onese, his eecond appearance In Eng and ; Fernandez, Signor Tagdafico ; Ruiz, Signor Lucchesi ; tin Zingaro, Signor Ros,i ; and Manna), Signor Wacatel. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre eta is, 10s. 6c1., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-offic under the portico of the thea , re, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. THEATRE ROYAL DR U R Y-L AN E. Managers, 3lfssrs :. .:dmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, (for the Benefit of Mr. Wa'ter Lacy) Beene from TWELFT II NIGH I'. Miss Heath, Songs of Avon. Miss Edith Wynne, Mr. Swift. Atter which, will be produced the Grand Stage Revival of Shakspere's Chronicle or Historical Play, entitled the First Part of HENRY THE FOURTH. The cast will include impersonations by those eminc.st trtists, Mr. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Addiso , , dlr. Ryder, Mr. Hobert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoti Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M es Rcee Leclercq, , nd Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lace Com pany. To conclude with AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G. Belmore. HEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, April 20, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN: Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, Clark, Gordon, Braid, &c. ;Mesdames Ang - el, Lindley, Rill, Harris, Snowden, &c After which, the new Easter piece, entitled "VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe, &c. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly i'ower, Hill, Wright, Rogers, &c. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA. After which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brothers Webb. To conclude with, 23d time, a new Farce, by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled DRAWING-ROOM. SECOND FLOOR, AND AT TICS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence With THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR: Messrs. Widdi combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. Lavenu. A lter which, at Eight o'clock, the 136th Night of BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Btendhal's " Italian Chronicle ." Principal characters by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, J. BrouvlL-im, Emery, Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Miss Kate 'ferry, Miss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, Iliss Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping' of hat and cloaks, and teat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden t) receive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open dailrfrom 11 to 5. Commence at 7. MR. FECHTER bP,crs to announce that the whole profits of the First Night's Represents ion of Hamlet will be divided between the NATIONAL SHAK SVEARE COMMIT LEE and the DRAMATIC COLLEGE SCHOOLS FUND. Mr. FECHTER'S indisposition pre venting the production of Hamlet on the Evenint of he 23d, the LYCEUM THEATRE will be closed that night. EW THEA.TRE-I-tO YAL, Sole Proprietor and Mansio-er, M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS : Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington, and Bliss K.Kelly. At 8, LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss 11. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with TfIE AREA BELLE : liessrs. J. L. Too:e, P. Bedford, K. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. E EVERY A NErv. EVENING. A M H iss . 'IT ESVESNINBGAan'Bateman will will re-apoear in her great impersonation of the Jewish maiden until further notice. In order o give due effect to this most remarkable success of the season, eatirely new scenery by the celebrated artists Messrs. Danson and sons, and Thompson. New dr, ss.2s and appointments have bean prepared for its production.—N. ti. In consequence of the swessing and numerous applications at the Box-office, ar- Angement.; have now been made by which Seats m‘y be ob a Fortnight in Advance. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY PRESERVER. Alter which, the Pa'cony Scene from ROMEO AND JULIET. Mi,ses Swauborough and Wilton. Followed by the Fifth Act of MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Concluding with the Great Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton ; Mes dames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, llughes, Commence at 7. "114 OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the iL Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Re-engagement of those celebrated artistes. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews.—The greatly successful new Ccm , _dy every Evening. THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTEIt THE WEDDING. Mr. F. Robinson and Miss Her.ert. At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by I. BuckirLzham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINIM4 : 3i r. harles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. slontague; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and M es A. Cottrell. Commerce at 7. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 26s. per ton. Double 21s. per ton. Top 255. „ Nuts. . . l9s. „ Deep ...225. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Beat Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent rvas THIRD EDITION OF " RE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Dan be had Every Evening of G. R. GIANIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, April 20, 1864. THERMOMETER.. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.20. Wind—E, ; moderate breeze, and very fine, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, lh. 6m.—Afternoon, lh. 26m. £O-mobaciw.-Morning, lh. 44-El.—Afternoon, lb. 56m. at LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1864. We are glad to find that the Earl of DERBY has drawn attention to the new gun recently patented by Mr. MACKAY. When every Government except our own is on the lookout for improvements in its armaments, it is necessary for those who are in the position to command attention, to stir up those in authority to take advantage of the discoveries of British subjects, instead of leaving their labours to be appropriated by more enterprising and more iberal foreigners. Lord DERBY simply drew the attention of the Secretary for War to the report of Mr. MACKAY'S gun (an account of which appeared in The Sun last week), and after relating the ex traordinary advantages which it seemed to possess over other guns, the noble lord inquired whether the Government had taken any steps to examine into the accuracy of the report. He also asked what steps they were prepared to take provided that the gun was effective and was calculated to be utilised for the public service. Earl DE GREY and I tiroN said, in reply, that an officer had been sent to Liverpool to make inquiries as to the character of the gun and the results which had been obtained, and that the report of the trial had been confirmed. But the noble lord went further, and endeavoured to underratea gun which ch had proved to be eminently successful in its first and only trial, because heavier guns had done almost as much at the same range and might hereafter do more. He also said it was impossible to determine the value of the gun when it was fired at iron plates at a distance of only two hundred yards. We would ask the noble lord the S ec retary far War, if this be -0, why so many thousands of pounds have been expended in testing iron plates at that range , a n d why the Belle r oph on target was pronounced a great success when it re. sisted 68 and 100 lbs, shot at Sheeburytte,e at that distance ? Mr. MACKAY'S gun has penetrated a target as strong as the Bellerophon, if not stronger, It re. presented a portion of the side of the Agincourt, now being built for the Government by Messrs. LAIRD, of Birkenhead, who provided the target which was considered by competent judges to be of the best quality, and all that could be required. It consisted of an outer plate ift. square and 51 inches thick of ro'led iron; next came 0 inches of teak, then an inner plate or akin inches thick, then angle iron and ribbing, and finally a backing op with timber balks and supports IS inches thick. It is not expected that even the largest ship can carry much heavier pkting than this, yet Mr. MACKAY'S gun sent a shot clean through this obstacle and carried a large portion of the target away with it. The principle cn which this gnn is constructed is perfectly novel, and if, as there can be little doubt from the result of the re cent trial it will do, if it prove as effective at long ranges as it has done at 200 yards, it must produce a great revolution in the science of artillery. It is curious to observe that the most striking im provements in mechanics and engineering are often suggested by men who have been brought up in a perfectly different walk of life. Sir W. ARM STRONG, for example, belonged originally to the legal profession, but he nevertheless introduced hydraulic cranes and his celebrated breech-loading field-pieces. Mr. JAMES MACKAY, a timber mer chant of Liverpool, has upset all the theories of artillery engineers by combining the advantages of the smooth bore and the rifled cannon, and by turn ing to profit the windage which has hitherto been the bugbear of artillerists. Sir. W. ARMSTRONG, in his shunt gun, to a certain extent lessened the loss of initial velocity caused by the resistance offered to the projectile by the grooves of the barrel, out Mr. MACKAY obviates the resistance altogether and gives his shot a greater rotatory motion. The principle heretofore adopted in rifled cannon has been to allow as little windage as possible, and to impart rotation to the projectile by making it fit the grooves of the piece. Mr. MACKAY, on the other hand, has conceived the plan of having the grooves so arranged that, while the shot fits closely to their outer edge, the grooves are left open for windage. By this arrangement the gas has to travel some feet further than the shot, and in doing this imparts a rapid and perfect 'spin to it. Now, as the shot does not traverse the grooves, they do not offer the same resistance to it, as in the case of ordinary rifled cannon, and there fore the pressure on the gun is necessarily decreased. Again, as the shot is not checked by the resistance of the grooves, its initial velocity at the mouth of the gun is as great as that of a shot from a smooth bore, while at the same time it possesses a greater rotation than an ordinary rifle projectile. 'We do not wish to enter upon the question which was raised by the noble lord the Secretary for War, as to the possible inaccuracy of the instruments used at Liverpool to ascertain the velocity of the solitary shot fired from Mr. MACKAY'S gun, but if there be any truth in the report of the result of that one shot, which Earl DE GREY does not deny, we think our conclusions are pretty well borne out by fact. The shot struck the target with a dull thud a little below the bull's eye on the right, and in the very strongest part, where it was backed up by the rib of the ship's side, the angle iron, and the timber balk. At the point of impact a perfectly circular hole was cut. The shot then powdered the teak, passed through the inner skin and the angle iron, shattered the timber balk into fragments, and was picked up 82 yards beyond the target, together with a circular piece of the iron armour, about 80ib. weight, it had carried with it through the back sup ports. The sand showed that it had spun to the last. About 70 fragments of iron, bolts, and frag ments of the inner skin and angle-iron were picked up 100 yards from the target. The shot when found was reduced from 13 inches to 11 inches in length, and increased about an inch and a half in diameter at the end which struck the target. The other end was uninjured. The whole target was forced back about six inc'aes, and so much deranged that mire shots were not fired. After this, will any body say that the principle ought not at once to be tes•ed to its fullest extent. To the country to wait for a perfect gun until some private individual has impoverished himself in diecnvering and perfecting a wea pon which it was the duty of the Govern ment to assist him in developing his inven tion. Mr. MACKAY is independent of such patron age, or he would not have been able to astonish the public in the way he has done, but that is no reason why, if his discovery be of service to the nation, the nation should not recognise his claims. If there be any merit in the invention, it must necessarily follow that the strain upon the piece must be much less than in the present system of rifled artillery. Why, therefore, cannot this sys tem be applied to the much abused, but yet effec tive 68 pounders, whose only fault seems to be the want of accuracy and force at long range. Earl DE GREY and RIPON has promised that the new gun shall receive all due attention. Let us hope that that attention may not be such as has been paid to too many modern improvements ! Lord GRANVILLE has not made matters better as regards the Council of Education, and it will not elevate public opinion as to his discretion, though they may admire his candour in avowing it, to find that he declares himself to be responsible "officially, morally, and practically for what had taken place , He also saddles himself with the odium which Mr. LOWE incurred by Lis hasty and abrupt declaration, for he proclaims that he would have made j'ist the same sort of answer. This may be deemed very magnanimous, and many may call it chivalrous, but it is really most absurd, and rather an insult to the House of Commons thus to reiterate that what that assembly has pronounced to be an injudicious course, is precisely the one which he would follow. It is strange that one of so much experience as the noble lord should not have known better than thus to commit himself, and, after all, what good did it do. He did not state that he intended to follow Mr. LOWE'S example; but he seemed to defy in quiry and to charge the House of Commons with conspiracy or for having presumed to meddle with matters beyond its ken. Lord GRAN VILLE laid great stress upon the appointment of a committee to inquire into the state of the case. This may be all very well, but there are two things to notice—first, that it is not quite the thing to talk of the appointment of a committee, as if it were an act of penance which it hal to perform, for having presumed to pass an opinion on a subject of national importance; and next, that it by no means follows, as a predetermined fact, that the result of such inquiries and in vestigations prove condemnatory of the vote lately passed or subversive of the implied cen sure. Of course it is not pleasant or palatable to be told either privately or publicly that one's con duct or mode of action is unfitting or unsuitable, bat it is somt times needful to make these assertions, and utter these unwelcome truths. After the hubbub and commotion that has ensued it may doubtless be deemed advisable to prove more justly the facts of the case, but it does not in consequence follow that by this means the Honse will undo its previous decisions. To begin with, it is a very dan gerous practice and a most unwise custom for the Council of Education to interfere and alter the res porta of the Inspectors. The evils of the system are manifest to all who will take the trouble to think on them dispassionately and unprejudiced. It confers a sort of arbitrary power on the autho rities which it is not safe for them t be invested with. It may be all right, but at the same time it may be all wrong, and it certainly - affords the chance to the censors and critics of expunging all THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1864. that offends their pride, departs from their views and militates against their wishes. The idea of such a supervision is not in accordance with the national spirit. It is un• English, and if, as Lord GRANVILLE says, it is the plan adopted by all the other departments of Government, the sooner a change is made the better. How can the truth be got at it so many rival claims are put in, and such various opinicn3 influence the information that is afforded ? How can the In spectors perform their task properly if they are tormented with doubts, harassed with fears, and perplexed with misgivings as to this passage offendi❑g and that paragraph annoying the some bodies or the nobodies who are to sit in judgment upon them. It is very natural for officials to cling to the shadow of their forms and ceremonies, but when everything around us is undergoing a change, why is bad management to be stationary and mis chievous meddling to be retained in our departments of State ? This is a difficult matter to decide upon, but the Government have not gone the right way to work to adjust the difficulties of the case by setting out from the outset in so arbitrary and consequen tial a manner: Irritating one's opponents is not the way to take from attacks their sting or their victory, and to deny that there is any truth, or right, or reason in the assertions of the opposite party is a very impolitic course. At all events, this has furnished another item to the many exciting and eventful discussions of this stormy session ; and it will not have been all talk without effect if, in con sequence of the strife and turmoil that have arisen regarding the management of the Council of Edu cation, more fair play and free speaking are allowed, and thus a better and more correct opinion can be formed of its merits. The difficulty of dealing with our convict popu lation does not lessen upon examination. Wise legislators, experienced administrators, and zealous philanthropists can not only not agree on the best and safest course, but not one of them is able to bring forward a scheme which shall remove exist ing obstacles and reconcile conflicting interests. Tne first interest to be considered is undoubtedly that of the honest man who has a claim on the Govern ment which he helps to support, and the laws which he faithfully obeys, for protection against the violence of the ruffian or the fraud of the swindler. This fact is, however, very often lost sight of by our humanitarians, who reserve all their sympathy for the thief or the villain who is caught, not for the inoffensive citizen who is robbed or maltreated. Yet they have i❑ some degree reason on their side, too. The homes, the parents, the associates, the training of the convict class have all beEn calcu lated to drag them down to the very lowest depths of humanity. They have had to contend from childhood against temptations of fearful strength, unsupported by any counteracting agency. But it is impossible for the law openly to recognise these mitigating circumstances. It will not do for the magistrate to inquire minutely into the circum• stances of the burglar or garotter's early life, and then, in consideration of his drawbacks, to let him off from the punishment due to his crimes. It was to solve this difficulty that the ticket-of-leave system was introduced, which appeared at first to answer the question, but either from an original fault in the system, or from careless or improper administration of it the results have been such es to occasion loud calls for a complete change. Last evening, upon the motion for the Penal Servitude Acts Amend ment Bill going into Committee, Mr. ADDERLEI moved the entire abaiadonment of the ticket-of leave system. The right hon. gentleman, who is something of an authority in these matters, having devoted to them long and careful consideration, spoke clearly and sensibly of many of the disad vantages attending the System, not only as regards the public, but as it affec's the men themselves. Tao great difficulty appears to be this, that if the ticket-of-leave is to be any check upon the man, or any protection to the public, it can only to by means of strict police supervision and regular watching, and this is absolutely fatal to the man's getting or retaining regular and honest employ ment. On the other hand, if no supervision is attempted, and the man is trusted to repot himself, the ticket-of-leave is practically valueless as a check upon the convict. We are afraid the amendment which was carried against the Government last night, although politically important as a further proof of the weakness of the Administration, will be practically of very little benefit. It may be possible to carry out the plan proposed in Ireland, but in this country even our own skilful detectives will fail to enfn - ce its fulfilment. The amendment pro posed by Mr. HUNT to clause 4, was to the effect that if a ticket holder should neglect to report himself at the police station of the district where he resided on the first day of every month, he should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour and forfeit his ticket. A very prudent precaution, doubtless, with the solitary objection of its utter impracticability. How is such a rule to be enforced in our thronged and changing• cities, with constant unwatched traffic, from place to place, from city to city, from one part of the kingdom to another? And supposing even that it could be rigorously enforced, how is a man so watched to retain his employment with the known prejudice of English workmen against con victs—a prejudice which in its sturdy honesty and strength defies alike the thecries of humanitarians, and the kindly efforts of employers to " give the man a chance 9'' Yet, are we to say that these men must be shut out from the great safety valve of their energies, the potent reformer honest labour ? If we do, we are sealing their doom, and ticket or no ticket makes very little difference, as they will soon be inside the prison walls again. The subject is beset with problems, for which we fear the true solution is as yet undiscovered. The only established principle seems to be to remove long sentence men to a country where they can really be of valuable service to the honest members of the community, and their work therefore no longer at a discount; while for those on short sentences we must try and discover what amelioration of labour, what small indulgencies and other rewards may serve to take the place in some degree of tickets of leave, until at least the inconsistencies attending them shall have been in some measure reconciled. THE STUPENDOUS FRENCH NEWSPAPER called Le Grand Journal, which has recently appeared, and is the longest and broadest journal in the world, is about to pub• lish an unedited romance by Dumas, called "The Citizens of Paris," which is said to be something in the style of Sue's " Wandering Jew." M. GODARD has, it is said, discovered the means of preventing all danger in ballooning by never ascending, A CRUEL REFINEMENT OF LUXURY.—The skin of the astrakan, which is so much the fashion in Paris, and is so excessively dear, is procured in all its beauty by killing the black sheep that is bearing young, and skinning the lamb thus untimely born, as the skin is thus rendered beautifully fine. The Japanese lately compared us to the most barbaric natives of the earth, If they heard of this fashion of les Francais would their respect increase ? A SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR GOING TO SLEEP. —Yesterday an old man named Silas Skinner, about sixty years of age, was charged before the county magis trates at Rochester, with going to sleep in the open air. The accused was observed by police-constable Empson, 100, to go behind a straw stack between four and five o'clock in the morning, and lie down to go to sleep, when the officer immediately pounced on him and took him into custody. The accused said he had nowhere to sleep, The Rev. Mr. Marsharo, the presiding magistrate, told the prisoner he was "an almost incorrigible character," and sentenced him to Eix. weeks 14a - id labour,—,South .Eastern Gaucho, THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Wachtel as Arnoldo in " Guglielmo Tell.' Rossini's grand four-act opera of " Guglielmo Tell"—produced (as already notified in Die Sun) for the first time this season at the Royal Italian on Saturday—was repeated with magnificent effect last evening to a brilliant and molt appreciative audience. Whenever this noble composition is pro duced at any one of the great lyrical establishments of Europe, its performance, quite as a matter of course, takes rank among the "events" of the year. It is not simply that " Guglielmo Tell" has the re putation of being the great maestro's masterpiece, it enjoys the fair fame of being—in its character as such, as Rossini's masterpiece—one of the most superb product:one ever contributed by operatic composer to the treasures of the lyrical drama. The pathetic beauty of the " Gazze Laths," the tragic power of the same gifted (in some respects incom parable) master's " 0 tello," the sparkling, rian t, one might almost say, dazzling comicality of the " Bar biere di Sivigtia," great though they are and widely though they are appreciated yield the palm to the rarer combination of con trasting yet harmonious merits, constituting the pe culiar and exceptional charm, fascination, witchery, even, may we not call it ? of Rossini's latest, of Rossini's greatest opera " Guglielmo Tell." It is not—let us say this at once, however, now that we are referring thus pointedly to the especial and dis tinctive claims of " Guglielmo Tell" upon our admira tion—it is not that this Grand Opera can be said to abound in those most exquisite crowning gifts to us all from the hand of any great musical composer — golden largess (squandered around by some of them so affluently !) that we treasure up thenceforth, so to speak, as so many precious amulets—those Haunting Melodies, we mean, that are the Glories of Song, me lodies that once heard are never forgotten, each of them complete in originality, each, so to express it, "one entire and perfect chrysolite." It is not, we say, that Rossini's " Guglielmo Tell" commands our ad miration as an operatic masterpiece " set" with these the rarest of all the g' ms of song. For—spat t from that lovely choral jubilation of the Swiss pea santry, familiarly known in this country as coupled, in our English vernacular, with the words " Green hills of Tyrol," a warbling, exhilarant, hilarious melody, that seems to breathe of the mountain air of those lands of freedom (it matters little whether it refers to the Tyrol or to S itzeriand)—apart from this one world-famous choral melody, and from E the delicious dance music lavished in prodigal variety upon the great scene of the Opera, the market scene, that is, in the third act, im mediately before the apple is shot from the head of Tell's boy by the arrow of that Hero-Marksman— there are in Rossini's operatic masterpiece but very few, if indeed, for that matter, there be any other, even momentary snatches of those peculiar and Haunting Melodies we are here speaking of, those melodies that, once heard, cling lovingly thenceforth to our most grateful remembrance. It is in the weaving together of the harmonious witcheries, or wizardies, it should rather be said, of his marvellous gifts as the great maestro among Operatic Composers that Rossini, has, in this glorious work of art, revealed powers attesting his full right to precedence; to pre-eminence, to supremacy above them all. From the first ascending notes of the eiolincellos, with which the wonderful Overture opens, throughout the whole of the four acts of the Opera itself, to the final chorus of the emancipated peasantry, the exultant chorus chaunted as the curtain falls at the close of this patriotic drama— I boachi, i monti, a la citta Alzin tonante un grido solo Pe' cieli a to spiegasti it vole : Vitoria e libert : the score of Guglielmo Tell proclaims by every note and bar woven into that marvellous maze of sound Rossini's absolute mastership as a musician. The concerted pieces are perfect studies, indeed, as so many veritable feats ~of art in musical composi tion. There is one passage occurring—like a distinct episode, as one may say—in the great Overture, that has a wondrous beauty of its own, typifying. as it almost seems to us, precisely this paramount and distinctive merit of the whole Opera, as a very labyrinth of intricate and dexterous harmonits. It is a passage—this—in which, by astonishing involin ions and inter minglings of most delicate sounds, the violins, the hautboys, the triangles, and the horns not only " weave the warp and weave the woof" but, together, make up, as\it were, a very embroidery of harmonies, Altogether, surely— (not the overture alone, but the whole of this grand opera)—a wondrous composition! The libretto of it—even with the exquisite historical incident it and dertakee to illustrate—like the rue of these unhappy librettos—is, if the truth must he spoken, very much indeed, of a failure. The love story about Arnold and Matilda, intertwined, most mistakenly (as we for one must ever think), with the patriotic historical tale about Tell and Gossler—is with the very feeblest imaginable interest, as a love story. There is but one effective situation, in truth, it the whole Opera, meaning, of course, the Shootin; of the Apple, if, we hero except only that one )f the Gathering of the Cantons at the end ef the second act, an incident, happily, suggesting to Rossini that inimitable finale, in the working out of which the spirit-stirring crescendo leads, at last, with a start ling aplomb to that sudden rush down to the foot lights of all the choruses, swore in hand ! Their rush down to the footlights to the single (and s i gnal) cry, All; arra .I—uttered, just once, to the crash of the whole orchestra, as the curtain descends ! The cast of tie opera yesterday at the Royal Italian was identically the same, of course, as the one which attractec eo large an audi ence to Covent Garden on Saturday night, the night of the first performance it this season in that great lyrical establishment. And the impression then produced by the principal artistes to whom the chief characters had been allotted, was, l e t us say it b r i e fly a nd at once, to the full confi rme d. Si gnor W ac htel, who took the town by storm only the other day with his Man rico, has now, by his impersonation o f Arnoldo, securely and (so l ong at l eas t as his rare powers shall in the mere co urse o f na t u re lag) permanently established 'pis reputation. Marvellous though that wonderful high chest note of his, the C above the line, the at de poitrine, the C di petto, unquestion ably is in the silvery and resonant fullness of its vibration—it is not simply by any such "cape. d'Operea" that he extorts that nightly crash of white kids end those choral shouts of bravo, bravissimo. As a ppertaining to a primo tenore the whole ample compass of his noble and lovely voice, charms his delighted audience into admiration. Besides which, his management of that voice of his, has so clearly and so vastly im proved, it has so advanced, expanded, and zisen since the date of his appearance originally at the Royal Italian, for a very brief interval only, a couple of years ago, that we have full confidence in his future as a young Chief of Song, who will not rest satisfied merely with the high position he has already at tained but will, on the contrary, sedulously continue his efforts as hitherto, (let him exult, if he will, to remember, up to this hour, his triumphant effort s ), s till f ur th er t o rise and to advance in the general development of his powers as an Artist. While he is yet i n the golden and hal cyon outset of his career in his art—as one of the recognised exponents of which he already occupies the foremost r ank—he has the satis faction and the encouragement, thou g h he s hould also bear in mind, too, the responsibility, of having so completely won a mastery over his audience, that they go "with him" whithersoever he lists, whithersoever he chooses to lead ,them, with that tnagicel voice of his ; and they (his audience) not only go with him, be it said , b ut they go with him enthusiastically. llerr S chmid 's majestic organ as a veritable basso profondo, an one mistakeable successor at last to the great Lablache, produced as favourable an impression upon his Covent Garden hearers in Walter as that grand voice had done already a few evenings previously in Ore vise. Madame Rudersdorff's Jemmy was, we would say, hero, distinctly, as thrilling in its passion, (13 it wascharming in its tenderness, 'Wile. Marie Itattu's Mathilde secured to her several brilliant triumphs during she evening. With a little more out-singing, and a trifle more animation in his acting, Signor Graziani would Iwo us nothing to desire in the impersonator of the Patriot-Hero Tell, The mise en-scene throughout the opera is all that we have been so long accustomed to at the Royal Dalian— the moonlit-lake scene being, in particular, singu larly beautiful. Orchestra and Chorus were still, as usual, loyally obedient to the potent wand of Mr, Costa. And, although the rival house had (in its turn) the peculiar attraction of Garibaldi's pre sence, the immense area of Covent Garden last evening was, thanks to Rossini and Wachtel, very fully occupied. Garibaldi's Visit to Her Majesty's Theatre, r .,he performances last evening, consisting of " Lucrezia Borgia" and a ballet divertissement, were honoured by the presence of General Garibaldi, who, with a large party, occupied a box in the centre of the house. The general looked very tired, and sat back in his box as if rather anxious to avoid demonstrative scenes. The whole affair, in deed, was much more quiet than might perhaps have been expected, and until the end of " Lucrezia Borgia," when Signor Arditi's "La Garabaldina" was sung and repeated, there was really no very great display of enthusiasm. It should be remem bered, however, that the major part of the audience must have been aware of General Gariba!di's fatigue, owing to the extraordinary amount of ex citement he has recently undergone in England, which is the true and only cause of his taking leave of us so soon, The national Italian hymn was sung before the opera; between the acts was given Signor Arditi's " Madre Italia ;" and at the conclusion of " Lucre zia" (as we have airendy stated) the same com poser's " Garibaldina" was sung. The performance on this occasion was rendered further remarkable by the rentree of Madlle. Titiens and M. Gassier, who sustained respectively the characters of Lucrezia and Duke Alfonso ; and the first appear ance as Orsini of the new cud admirable contralto Madlle. Bettelheim. Mr. and Mrs. Seely accompanied General Gari baldi, with whom were also General Mordini, Col, Missori, Col. Chiosso, Col. Peard (Garibaldi's " Englishman"), Lieut.-Col. Chambers, Menotti Garibaldi, Ricciotti Garibaldi, Dr. Basiiio, and Mr. Negretti, Amongst the company present were— The Dake and Duchess of Montrose, the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Duchess of Manchester, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Earl of Dudley, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Marchioness of Downshire, the Marquis of Blandford, the Marchio ness of Ely, the Marquis of Blandford, the Marchio ❑ess of Ely, the Marquis of Sligo and the Ladies Browne, the Countess of Macclesfield, the Earl and Countess de Giey, the Earl of Lonsd ale, the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl and Countess of Gainsborough, the Earl of Aylesford, the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, the Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux, the Viscount Curzon, the Viscountess Gort, Lady H. Vane, Lady Mary Curzon, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Lord G. Fitzgerald, Lord Sandys, &c. Prussian Circular Despatch, The following despatch forwarded by Herr von Bismark to the King of Prussia's diplomatic agents abroad has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : " Berlin, April 15. " Sir,-0a the 15± March last the Danish Go vernment addressed to its diplomatic agents abroad a despatch, which is nothing but a long indictment of the civil commissioners of Prussia and Austria in the Duchy of Schleswig. Although this docu ment only came to the knowledge of the King's Government through the journals and communica tions of its representatives abroad, we have not considered that we could allow to pass unanswered the imputations which it contains, and which were of a character to place in the most unfavourable light the policy of which the commissioners are at this moment the agents. " A groat number of thes3 accusations in fact re fute themselves, for whoever has cot lost sight of the end which we pursue in the Dachy, and has taken the trouble to compare the measures cerv,ured by the Danish Government with the just preten sions whose realisations the•present war is destined to obtain. Nevertheless, we only considered our selves boural to speak in our defence when acquainted with the facts of the case, and after having ;taken positive information upon the grievances mentioned in the Danish despatch. The result of this information is recorded in the memo randum of which I have the honour to transmit to you a copy. " It results from this memorandum that part of the grievances specified by the Danish Government are devoid of all foundation, and rest upon nothing but pure invention, or at least upon entirely incor rect information. " As to those which refer to the measures really taken by our commissioners, they are a fresh proof of the strange pretension of the Danish Govern ment, which appears to believe that the occupation of Schleswig by the allied Powers had no other end than to continue the system of oppression which it had too long made prevalent in the Duchy. In all the districts which had been submitted to this op- pression the allied troops were haiied with en thusiasm by the population, and the commissioners had no other task than to put an end to the abuses to which the country was a prey, and to restore to it the rights whose re-utablishment has been the sole end of the occupation. It is evident that in order to accomplish this task they could not employ those who had hitherto been the instrument of this system of oppression, and who had no other mission than to stifle by every possible means the na tional sentiment and the attachment to law in the heart of the German populations. The school and the Church were especially in the hands of men partly strangers to the Duchy, wanting in th e qualities required by law and by the duties of their trust, and having no other title to the functions confided to them than their blind devotion to the policy of the Cabinet of Copenhagen. " A good part of the pretended enormities with which the allied Powers are upbraided find a very natural explanation in the state of war which at present weighs upon the country, and imposes upon our generals the imperious obligation of looking before everything to the security of their troops. Among the measures of this kind may be princi pally mentioned the arrest of spies, which no army in the field has hitherto been obliged to tolerate in its neighbourhood. "The political and administrative measures of which the Danish Governmeat complains, and which it has taken pains to distort and represent in a false light, have only had the effect of redressing the wrongs of the unjust and vexatious system which, during 12 years has oppressed the German population. It is natural that, in order to put an end to the oppression, it has been necessary to re move its agents, at least those among them con spicuous by their fanaticism. " A conscientious judgement of the conduct of our civil and military authorities in Schleswig must convince every impartial man that they have acted with all the consideration which the exceptional condition of the country allowed them. " I invite you, M--, to read this despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to leave with him a copy of the same, and of its appendix. (Signed) " VON BISMARK" ROSSINI having given a grand soiree very re cently at Paris, it has been sardonically remarked that while there were a dozen moreeaux of music in the pro gramme, out of these only 12 were by Rossini, _ _ M. GUIZOT is correcting the proofs of his reply to Renan, to be called "Meditations Religieuses." FIRE LAST NIGHT.—Last night, between nine and ten o'clock a fire broke out in the London and Man chester paper hanging establishment, 91, St. Martin's-lane. The fire raged with great fury for some time, and entirely gutted the premises. By the exertions of the firemen and a good supply of water the fire was got under in a short time, and confined to the building in which it originated. NARROW ESCAPE OF GEN. BUCKLEY.—Gon. Buckley, M.P., had a miraculous escape on Saturday. While proceeding in his barouche to the Crystal Palace one of the horses took fright, when both ran away and the car riage was overturned and smashed, but the gallant general was not materially hurt, though bruised, The footmark's shoulder was injured. LATEST DITELLIGENCE. LRELTTER'S TELEGRAMS.] GARIBALDI AND THE FRENCH EMPEROR. PARIS, APRIL 20 (Morning). The Moniteur of to. day says:— " The Morning Star and the Daily News aEscrt that Earl Clarendon, in the name of the British Government, promised, as a concession to the Em. peror, that Garibaldi should shorten his stay i❑ England. This statement is entirely incorrect. No observation was made to Earl Clarendon by the French Government on the subject of Garibaldi." The Constitutionnel, on the subject of the Con- ference, says ; " France intends to maintain the treaty of 1852, but, should the Conference find that that Conven tion no longer harmonises with the present state of affairs, and wish to replace them by a fresh combi nation, the French Government, in conformity with its principles, would not consider itself entitled to dispose of the population of the Duchies before they had been consulted." The same paper refutes the statements of certain foreign journals in which the mode of voting in the Duchies waa annonnoed as decided—viz,, by uni versal suffrage—and adds : " France is aware that in such ques ions the usages of a country should serve us a guide." SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 20. The Germania has come into dock. Her cargo will be transhipped into a vessel chartered for Hamburg under the EugHell flag. The Germania will not proceed for Hamburg, but will remai❑ here and sail hence for New York direct on the 4th May. SANTO DOMINGO, MADRID, APRIL 19. Advices from Santo Domingo state that the town of Palama ana the insurgent garrison, together with the stores of provisions and ammunition, had fallen into the hands of the Spaniards. The Government is now preparing for a decisive campaign in autumn. ROME. ROME, APRIL 20. The Emperor 'and Empress of Mexico had an audience of the Pope yesterday. They have visited the Basilica of the Vatican, the ex-King of Naples, the Neapolitan royal family, and Cardinal Antonelli. Yesterday evening their Majesties gave a dinner party, followed by a reception which was attended by the cardinals, the Pontifical ministers, the diplomatic corps and the Roman nobility. THE FALL OF DYBBOL, We (limes) received the following telegram from our Special Correspondent " GRAVENSTEIN, APRIL 19, 2.12 A.M. " By the capture of the forts on the heights of Dybbol, 2,600 Danish soldiers, 40 officers, and 90 guns fell into the,hands of the Prussians. " The tete de pont, on the mainland, which the Danes held for a short time, has been taken, and the bridges burned and destroyed. " The Danes have crossed into the Island of Alsen. " The Rolf Krake arrived too late to take part in the defence of the works, She was struck by some shells and retired. " The Danish general, Duplet, is killed. The Prussians have also lost -many officers." MEXICO. General Santa Anna, the ex-Dictator, and his an, who bad been allowed by the Regency to le turn to Mexico, have been again expelled. Santa Anna, on arriving at Vera Cruz, had signed a for mal acknowledgment of the authority of the Em peror Maximilian, as the legitimate Government of Mexico, and pledging himself to abstain from any political demonstration whatever. But he had scarcely landed when he violated his engagement by issuing a manifesto to the people, stating his motives for returning to Mexico, denouncing the Liberal party, and speaking in flattering terms of the,Conservatives and the French intervention. On the 12th of March an order from General Almonte, countersigned by General Bazaine, arrived at Vera Cruz, direc:ing Santa Anna to be placed on board the CAbert, and taken back to Havannah. FRANCE. Preparations are being made at the Palace of St. Cloud for the reception of the Emperor and Em press. _ _ The marriage of Baron de Lacrosse, Secretary to the Senate, to Mlle. Helhu de Gombault was cele brated yesterday at the church of St. Sulpice. The witnesses of the bridegroom were Marshal Count de Regnault St. Jean d'Angely, and M. do Lacrosse, a relative ; and of the lady, Viscount de Barra', Senator, and Viscount do Mauroy. M. rhuillier, President of Section at the Council of State, is at present suffering from a tumour in the shoulder, which will, it is feared, necessitate an operation. BOURSE, April 19.—The market opened at an advance, but the improvement was not long main tained, as sales for realisation to a considerable amount were soon afterwaids made. Threes, which commenced at 67fr. 70c., are now at 67fr. 45c. Mobilier, after having been done at 1,300 fr., are last quoted at 1,285 fr. The Mexican Loan is negotiated with 11 per cent. premium. The sub scription goes on very satisfactorily. Railway Market quiet, but pretty firm. The quotations closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 93 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 35 Credit Mobilier 1270 Do. end month 1280 Bank Shares 3300 Credit Foncier l3lO Roman EA IL Italian Loan 69 30 Do. end month 69 30 New ditto Do. end month.... Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt .. — Deferred vAlts. Cash. Account. 895 - .. 900 - 985 - .. 985 - Orleans Northern .... Neva ditto Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon-bard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona 957 50 .. 957 50 900 - .. - - 680 - .. 680 - 502 50 .. 502 60 485 - .. 482 50 375 - .. 375 - 425 - .. 427 50 560 - .. 563 75 505 - .. 501 25 585 - .. 580 - THE Loss OF THE BOHEMIAL—A Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Montreal Ocean Steam ship Company's screw steamer . Bohemian on the Abdens Rook, near Cape Elizabeth, coast of Maine, on Feb. 22 last, was opened at Liverpool on Tuesday, before Mr. Raffles, stipendiary magistrate, and Capts. Cowe and Harris, nauti cal assessors. The circumstances of the wreck have already been recorded. The vessel was an iron screw steamer, valued at £90,000, and had on board at the time of her wreck a cargo valued at from £150,000 to £200,000, also her Majesty's mails, and 19 cabin and 200 steerage passengers She left Liverpool on the afternoon of Feb. 4, and on the 22d encountered very cloudy weather. The same night sound ings were found in 48 fathoms. A little after 7 p.m. the captain observed Cape Elizabeth lights bearing N. W. by W, and distant as he thought 8 or 9 miles. Signals were made for a pilot to come aboard. Shortly afterwards a buoy was seen on the starboard, and though the engines were promptly stopped the vessel struck directly afterwards. She began to fill rapidly. The captain (Captain Borland) headed her for the shore, and then ordered the boats to be launched. In doing this boat No. 2 was swamped, and 37 passengers and six seamen lost. The other five boats got to shore, and boats No. 1 and No. 6 again returned and took off the cap tain and about 76 passengers and seamen, who remained to the last. The captain, the company's agents, and the inha bitants of Portland used every exertion to provide assist ance for the unfortunate emigrants, When the evidence had been partly heard the ourt adjourned until this morning. .-Ard Cart tirdar. HER MAJESTY. - WINDSOR CASTLE, April 19. The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley,,, drove out yesterday afternoon. Major-General Seymour was in attendance ca horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, left the Castle for Greenwie Park. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar rington, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, the Hon. Lucy Ly ttelton, and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville Pi'c't' went to London yesterday afternoon, and wer e present at the Philharmonic concert in Hanover square. The Duchess of Wellington arrived at the Castle, and had the honour of dining with the Queen , th e King of the Belgians, and the royal family. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds this morning.. The King of the Belgians took leave of her Ma jesty to-day, and left Windsor Castle for Dover,en route to Brussels. His Royal Highness. Prince Alfred accompanied the King to London. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena an d Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Emily Cath cart, went to the railway station in Windsor Wit h his Majesty. The King was attended by General Count de Moerkerke, Dr. Koepl, the Earl of Caithness, gi' d Lieutenant-Colonel Da Plat. Prince Alfred proceeded in the afternoon t ° Sandringham Hall on a visit to the Prince of - Wulc°' attended by Major Cowell and Lieutenant. Departure of the King of the Belgians. Yesterday afternoon his Majesty the King of the Belgians took leave of the Queen at Windsor Cast le ' and, accompanied by his Royal Highness PrinC Alfred and their Royal Highnesses Princess es , Helena and Louise, d ro v e t o th e Wi n d sor station of South-Western Railway, w h ence h e pr oceede d to Dover on his way to Brussels. The King Was attended by Count de Moerk er k e an d D r . NOP (who arrived with bim from Belgium), and by t he Earl of Caithness and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat' Prince Alfred was attend e d by M a j or C owe ll 911 ' Lieutenant Haig. The King of the Belgion3 also attended by M. Van de Weyer, the Be]g ia° Minister, who accompanied his Majesty to Doe r ' At the station his Majesty, who looked exceeding l y well, bade adieu to the Princesses Helena 811 Louise, and then, with Prince Alfred, proceeded t° London by a special train provided by the South' Eastern Railway, which was in charge of I \l r ' Godson, superintendent of the South-Western line, as far as Waterloo, but was accompanied by Mr- W. Eborall, the general manager of the South' Eastern Railway, and Mr. P. Knight, the superio' tendent. At Waterloo, which was reached at 3.45, after run of 40 minutes, the South-Western engine was detached and that of the South-Eastern compol substituted, when the train moved slowly throug h the station to the platform on the iron bridge wbie ll crosses the Waterloo-road. Here Prince Alfre d took leave of his venerable relative, and, attende d by Major Cowell and Lieutenant Haig, drove to the terminus of the Great Eastern Railway at 13ishops' gate, which he left shortly afterwards for Sandring' ham, on a visit to the Prince and Princess of W a les' The South-Eastern train then proceeded direc t to Dover by w,iy of the Charing-cross line, la charge of Mr. Knight, and on arrival there bl s Majesty went to the Lord Warden Hotel, where 1 1 ° proposed to pass the night. In the' evening the King entertained the coca' mandant of the garrison and the officers at dinner , His Majesty proposed to leave this morning at ten o'clock for Ostend. REMOVAL OF THE COUF.T TO OSEORNE...—/IS' rangements were made yesterday for the departure of aer Majesty and the royal family to Osborne, which it is e:v petted, if the weather continue fine and the wind suitriblej wid take place to-day. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are not expected to leave Sandringham for Mall borough House before Saturday, the 30th inst., or Monda yr the Ist proximo. The Marquis Camden and the Ladies Pratt have arrived at their residence in Grosvenor•square from Til ° Wilderness, near Sevenoaks, for the season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury en" tertained a select party at dinner yesterday evening, a t the family residencein Arlington-street. Capture of the Steamer Bavaria by Danish Frigate. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) HAMBURG, April 19. Pilots have brought in the news to the insuranc e company that the Hamburg and American Colo' pany's mail steamer Bavaria, which left Hamburg for New York on Sanday, the 10th inst., was or tured by the Danes yesterday. SOUTHAMPTON, April 19 (Evening). A telegram has been received here this evening which states that the Hamburg and American Con y pany's steamship Bavaria, bound from Hamburg to New York, via Southampton, has been captured 1 1 a Danish frigate off the month of the Weser. The Bavaria had a large number of passengers (3 . ° board, and the value of the ship and cargo is est v mated at £120,000. The Bavaria ought to have arrived here early th is morning to receive the French and English portion of her cargo, and was to have sailed for Now Yorl c at mid-day on Wednesday, as advertised. The same company's steamer Germania, which arrived here this mor n i ng f rom N ew Yo r k, i s detained in the river, off Netley Hospital, awe t iling orders. It is not likely now that she will leave O r Hamburg, as her passengers have been landed, Ava proceed to their destination via London. It is expected that the Germania will discharg e her cargo at this port, to be reshipped in English bottoms for Hamburg, and that she will 84i1 five s ' this port for New York direct. RUMOURED RETIREMENT OF LORD CARLISLE. The _Dublin _Eventng Mail gives currency to a rumour to the effect that the customary term of his Lord Lieut enaD r/ having expired, it is the wish of the Earl of Carlisle to retire: and that he possibly may not return to Ireland i that capacity. Should this rumour prove correct (Bars t l i e i _Evening Maili , we need hardly say that his excellcia, :) ,11 ;; carry with him the kindly regards and good wishes of classes of the Irish people. NEWSVENDORS' BENEVOLENT AND PRovID INSTITUTION.—The 25th annual meeting of 03° members of this institution was held last evening at the r egl Exchange, Fleet-street, Mr. Kennedy in the chair. D ir. Jones, the secretary, read the report, which stated tha t the society had been steadily progressing during the past Ye er c i The amount distributed in pensions and temporary relic t increased during that period to £6l 8s 4d, the funded csP itj t to over £2,000, and a balance of £2l to be carried to nes account. The annual festival had produced a profit c £2O, and a similar sum had been realised from a benefit a t tbe Haymarket Theatre. During the existence of the s 06° 1 £520 had been paid in pensions, and £l6O in temporad r e ' lief, The provision that the pensions should be paid eel ': from the dividends on the funded capital kept the nu ,,Dl ' ' of pensioners low, but greatly added to the stability of the institution. The number of pensioners now on the fe e was five, and another would be shortly elected. The fo e° ,. cial statement showed that the donations during the Pl' had amounted to £lO4, and the annual subscriptions to VI The total receipts had been £282 19s . 7d., and the total ° expenditure, including the purchase of £lOO stock, a: id then payment of £55 to pensioners, £261 16s. 2 d., le a W vir'g. balance of £2l 3s. sd. Oa the motion of Mr. e°,: seconded by Mr. llall, the report was adopted. The com mittee and officers for the ensuing year were then el ected, and other routine businesi: having been transacted, the meeting concluded with a vote of thanes to the chairraae• THE WRECK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.---. QUEENSTOWN, Tuesday.—Throughout last night a strozg south west breeze was blowing. Shortly before noon, t e e; day, the City of New York divided in two , and disappeara immediately, r i T n The bAlbertper mission e t o of r l h i i f s e boat a , I n a H m i gehtaesfst e t r h t e h infant Prince ri rie o of P Wales, will undergo the usual harbour trial of self rightiug! self ejecting the water, &c., of the boats of the National t t owifmeboorartlt: the stit 21stution insit in the attwoßegent'so,clCoacnkial dock, Lime/louse)